Colin Campbell

Writer

Colin Campbell is The Baltimore Sun’s evening breaking news and rewrite reporter. He covers primarily crime and mayhem in the city, with occasional forays into education, politics and other topics. He is a proud alumnus of The Daily Gamecock at the University of South Carolina. He hails from Catonsville, Md., and believes life is truly great in 21228.

Recent Articles

Nearly 1 million Marylanders are expected to travel for the Fourth of July next week, up nearly 6 percent from last year. The 993,000 people going to the beach and other start-of-summer vacation spots represents the biggest year-over-year jump since 2010, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic. The increase...

A truck hauling blue glue spilled its load on Interstate 95 just beyond the toll plaza north of the Fort McHenry Tunnel in Baltimore on Wednesday, according to the Maryland Transportation Authority police. The driver noticed the bright blue liquid leaking from his truck, pulled over and opened...

Five Baltimore County Council members held off primary challengers Tuesday. Democrats Julian E. Jones Jr. of Woodstock and Tom Quirk of Oella and Republicans Todd Crandell of Dundalk, Wade Kach of Cockeysville and David Marks of Perry Hall all now advance to the general election in November. Kach...

The state of Maryland filed a petition Tuesday in a federal court and another with the Federal Aviation Administration asking that the agency readjust flight paths that have upset neighbors of BWI Marshall and Reagan National airports by causing “greater community noise concerns than the FAA predicted,”...

Gov. Larry Hogan has asked President Donald Trump to declare last month’s deadly Ellicott City flood a major disaster for Baltimore, and Howard and Baltimore counties, which would qualify those areas for federal relief funding. The May 27 flood killed a National Guardsman, destroyed much of the...

The federal government has agreed to study ways of transferring ownership of a 19-mile stretch of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway (Interstate 295) to Maryland, federal and state officials announced Monday — a key step in Gov. Larry Hogan’s $9 billion highway expansion plan. Hogan and U.S. Secretary...

Two firefighters were injured in a partial collapse of a burning vacant home in Southwest Baltimore on Monday morning, the Fire Department said. The fire broke out at a two-story home at 1917 Wilkens Ave. in Carrollton Ridge about 7:30 a.m. Monday, department spokeswoman Blair Skinner said. The...

The union that represents Maryland Transit Administration drivers warned agency leaders of rail safety concerns about the Baltimore Metro SubwayLink more than two years before the agency suddenly shut the entire system down for a month of emergency track repairs in February. With less than 24 hours’...